Ironstorm Spearhead + Fulguris Task Force: A 3-DP Space Marines Combo

At a 2,000-point Strike Force game you have a 3-DP budget. Ironstorm Spearhead costs 2 DP and Fulguris Task Force costs 1 DP, so together they use exactly 3 DP — a legal, full-budget pairing. Two things to note:

• This combo is a 2,000-point pairing. At 1,000 points you only have 2 DP, so you'd run Ironstorm alone (or a different 2-DP/1-DP mix isn't possible with Ironstorm at 2 DP plus anything).
• You cannot build this out of a 3-DP detachment. Gladius Task Force and Stormlance are 3 DP and take your whole budget, so they can't add a support — combining is a 2-DP-core-plus-1-DP-support game.

Under 11th edition's army-building rules, each detachment you include grants an army-wide rule, and your army can use both detachments' stratagems plus a shared pool of enhancements (up to four at 2,000 points). In practice that means:

• Ironstorm's Armoured Wrath (a per-unit, per-phase re-roll of one Hit, Wound, or Damage roll) applies across the army — including the Fulguris Speeders, which are Vehicles, so their guns get the same consistency boost.
• Fulguris's Skystrike turn-one reposition applies to your Speeder units, giving the otherwise slow armour list a fast element that starts the game already in threatening positions.
• You can mix enhancements from both lists — for example Target Augury Web on a Techmarine (Lethal Hits on a big gun) and Bellicose Weapon Spirits on a Speeder (re-roll its random Damage).
• You draw on both stratagem suites: Ironstorm's tank tools (Ancient Fury, Power of the Machine Spirit, Armour of Contempt) and Fulguris's Reactive Evasion to keep Speeders alive after they strike.

Ironstorm's weakness is the board. A tank-and-Dreadnought gunline is durable and hits hard, but it's slow and struggles to contest far or backfield objectives — a fast opponent can score around it. Fulguris fixes exactly that: for a single Detachment Point you add Land Speeders and Storm Speeders that redeploy turn one, threaten distant objectives, and pick off targets the tanks can't angle onto, then slide back out of danger with Reactive Evasion.

Conversely, the Speeders are fragile alone — but bolted onto an Ironstorm core they benefit from Armoured Wrath's re-rolls and operate under the covering fire of a heavy gunline. The result is a list that holds the middle with armour and wins the edges with speed.

Run Ironstorm + Fulguris when your collection is armour-heavy and you keep losing games on objectives to faster armies. It trades a small amount of raw firepower (the 1 DP could instead be more of a 3-DP monolith) for mobility and board control.

Alternatives for that same 1-DP support slot on an Ironstorm core:

• Ironstorm + Subversion Assets — cover objectives with covert Phobos/Scout scoring instead of speed; better into gunlines, worse at chasing.
• Ironstorm + Librarius Conclave — add rotating psychic buffs (e.g. Pyromancy for +1 AP, Telekinesis for -1 Strength incoming) if you run Librarians.

Choose the Speeders when the problem you need to solve is reach and tempo; choose the others when it's scoring grind or durability.